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OK. That title is wildly misquoted from Casa Blanca . As a Linux nut I'm still pretty thrilled when I see people putting it to use in amazing ways. In another of their whimsical slideshows, Infoworld gave us... [More]

I recently attended a non-work-related conference outside. (Can you just imagine?) Since the majority of these presenters were artists and not sales people there was a variety of approaches to using slides. Many were the tired-and-true pages of bullets. Others were pretty dynamic. It got me to... [More]

It's been a little while since I've had a chance to write here. My new job role has been a little disruptive, but I'm hoping to balance it all out soon. The big news has been that Apache OpenOffice 4.0 released. (If you don't count all the other big news that is... [More]

First, I want to remind you that this blog contains my own thoughts and ideas and that those do not necessarily represent those of the IBM corporation. Second, I want to state that I do not intend this to be a political entry, though it will probably generate some emotion for you depending on... [More]

"Now look at them yo-yos. That's the way you do it. You play the guitar on the MTV. That ain't workin. That's the way you do it. Money for nothin' and chicks for free." — Dire Straits (Lyrics from eLyrics.net ) Evolution is not easy. It's rough on the... [More]

This morning I had a request from a colleague to help with a video that was refusing to upload to YouTube. The video would load and then die at 95% of processing. How frustrating! My first thought was to convert the video to a different format. It was already in a WMV format, which... [More]

Here are some technology ideas to help keep you awake. As our cars have gotten smarter they have also become hackable. This Car and Driver article talks about demonstrations done by the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS)which showed an... [More]

Today's post is a little geeky. Sorry about that. I've been working a lot more with video techniques lately. Blender is the tool that I'm finding fascinating because it has just so much raw power and potential, if one can overcome the learning curve. I'm getting... [More]

Are you being inundated with information about "being social"? Are you confused as you think that we worked that out thousands of years ago when we emerged from the caves? Humans are social. It's what we do. So, why is "social business" such a strange... [More]